1. Camilla Nylund was born on 11 June 1968 and is a Finnish operatic soprano.
13 Facts About Camilla Nylund
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Camilla Nylund appears internationally in lyric-dramatic roles such as Beethoven's Leonore, Verdi's Elisabetta, and Wagner's Elisabeth and Sieglinde.
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Camilla Nylund has appeared at international festivals and the openings of the Dresdner Frauenkirche and the Elbphilharmonie.
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Camilla Nylund continued her studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Eva Illes.
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Camilla Nylund then joined the ensemble of the Semperoper in Dresden in 1999, where she remained until 2002, performing roles including as Countess, Marie, Fiordiligi, Nitocris, Vitellia, Alice Ford, Tatjana, Marschallin and Arabella.
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Camilla Nylund was honoured there with the Christel-Goltz Prize - for her interpretations of Marie in Smetana's Die verkaufte Braut, Agathe in Weber's Der Freischutz, and Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.
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Camilla Nylund appeared in the re-opening of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden in November of 2005, performing the soprano solo in Beethoven's Missa solemnis, conducted by Fabio Luisi, alongside Birgit Remmert, Christian Elsner and Rene Pape.
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In 2008, Camilla Nylund appeared at the Salzburg Festival for the first time, presenting the title role of Dvorak's Rusalka.
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Camilla Nylund starred as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhauser at the Bayreuth Festival from 2011 until 2014, and had her festival-debut as Sieglinde in 2017.
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In 2018, Camilla Nylund appeared as the Countess in Capriccio at the Oper Frankfurt, staged by Brigitte Fassbaender.
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Camilla Nylund was awarded the title of Osterreichische Kammersangerin within that time.
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Camilla Nylund rejoined Heller for "Andre Hellers Hauskonzerte", a project aired by ORF III in November 2020 that first saw Nylund's abilities not only as a classical soprano, but within multiple other genres such as chanson, jazz and musical theatre.
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Camilla Nylund debuted the role of "a woman" in Schonberg's Erwartung at the Frankfurt Opera House in January of 2022 and is due to make her first appearances as Isolde and Brunnhilde at the Zurich Opera House until the end of the year.